Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:40:52 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, gh <grasshacker@linkfast.net>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DEL key acts like BackSpace Message-ID: <20000514094052.A24698@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000514125427.N847@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:54:27PM %2B0930 References: <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby> <20000513114953.I31094@freebie.lemis.com> <035c01bfbc9f$582bca30$b864aad0@kickme> <20000514110301.H847@freebie.lemis.com> <20000514075525.A24154@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000514125427.N847@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey said on May 14, 2000 at 12:54:27: > On Sunday, 14 May 2000 at 7:55:25 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Greg Lehey said on May 14, 2000 at 11:03:02: > >> On Saturday, 13 May 2000 at 0:51:54 -0500, gh wrote: > >> > >> 4. Meanwhile, in Washington State, a company reinvented everything > >> and used completely different characters from what other people > >> were using. That's their choice, of course, but it doesn't mean > >> anybody else is going to follow them, especially when most of > >> their choices appear to be suboptimal. -snip- > > These days it's become standard, even on commercial unix machines. > > I haven't seen any UNIX machine which has adopted that. What are you > referring to? Well, CDE. I just checked the text editor (dtpad) on Digital Unix and AIX. Also I think that's what the default shell settings are. > Well, you're free to do what you want with software you write. But > UNIX doesn't have the concept of editing at that level, so it's > difficult to find anywhere to use it. If you prefer it in, say, > Emacs, there's nothing to stop you changing it. True. But the keymap settings on the console, for instance, could be set up that way. They could also bind the alt keys in a more usual way, so that (for instance) alt-p works for history searching in tcsh. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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